Most People Quit Right Before This Happens
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What does it mean to create your own reality?
To become something more is not to react to the world, but to create a new one, yours. As my dad explained to me when I was in grade school, it's taking initiative, right? Seeing what isn't there, what's needed, then making it happen. And while the setting certainly changed, the situation is no longer about helping around the house so I could go to the concert with my friends. Right now, as we get older, our world seems to get bigger along with us. The stakes are higher. Now it's everything I see when I open the blinds and I look out that window. It's all there. And we can have as little or as much of that as we want. But what we receive will always be directly proportional to what we're willing to endure.
To how long we push forward before results arrive. How long we can carry on with the sole company of our beliefs. It's about Bezos packaging and delivering his own books from a garage. Knowing it's not about today, it's about tomorrow. If he can just hang on, if he can just endure. It's Tony Robbins with $20 in his bank account. Knowing that has no reflection on him or what he's capable of. If he can just hang on, just keep pushing. It's not that they had the ability to bring their dreams to life. A lot of people do. They had more. They had patience. They had the discipline to remain calm and collected. That's nerve-wracking. That can be unsettling. They have the ability to be focused, to remove all the noise around them, the doubt that stops people before that desired payout is achieved.
And one of my favorite ways to look at this concept of growth is a little anecdote about lily pads in a pond. And basically it's posed as a question, right? So the lily pads in this pond double in size every day. And by day 30, the pond is completely covered in lily pads. So then what day is it half covered? That's the question. A lot of people, you know, instinctually, they say, oh, okay, day 30, half of 30 is 15. So on day 15, it was half covered, but that's wrong. They're doubling every day, which means the pond wasn't half covered until day 29 and only a quarter covered on day 28. And the reason that's important is because that means on day one through 27, those lily pads were growing, they were working, they were moving, yet they occupied less than a quarter of that pond.
All that work for a result that was barely visible. And then at the very end, the payout becomes exponential, and that's what success is. That's what it means to pursue anything of significance. It's days, months, years of unrecognized work, of marching forward, covering ground when no one knows or cares or believes, except you. That visualization is your sweet spot, but like we all know, Easier said than done, right? This is an incredibly challenging thing because we get impatient and our pride starts to hurt. We become tempted to jump to something different or easier. We don't hang on long enough to hit day 28 or 29 or 30. When things really start to evolve, It's like James Clear's metaphor in Atomic Habits, right?
Where you have an ice cube sitting in a room and it's freezing and you start slowly shifting the temperature up. You don't see anything going on with the ice cube. Not until you hit that 32 degree mark. But there are things happening when it goes from 26 to 27 degrees and 27 to 28 and 28 to 29. Those little molecules are moving and bouncing around. But then boom, suddenly it hits that mark and it changes rapidly right in front of you. That's why this single shift in perspective changes everything. It's not about right now. You're doing this for the exponential growth to come. You're believing, you're laying the groundwork to what I call the overnight success period. When the world finally recognizes and goes, who is this?
Wow, that was quick. They have no idea about, you know, day one through 27. They don't know about the effort and the mental gymnastics.
How do patience and discipline contribute to success?
They don't know how many times you had to talk yourself out of quitting or out of rationalizing a day off. They just don't know the road you took to get there, and that's fine.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What does it mean to create your own reality?
0:06–4:58
2
How do patience and discipline contribute to success?
4:58–10:14
3
What is the lily pad principle and how does it relate to growth?
10:14–16:45
4
Why is it important to push through the invisible phase of progress?
16:45–22:47
5
How can discomfort be perceived as growth?
22:47–32:19
6
What role does self-reflection play in personal development?
32:19–39:04
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